Library: Education Research Guide: Article Databases

Academic Search Complete

EBSCO Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary database containing full-text for more than 8,500 publications in a user-friendly format with many helpful special features.

American Biology Teacher This link opens in a new window
This peer-refereed professional journal for K-16 biology teachers covers modern biology content, teaching strategies, field activities, social and ethical implications of biology, and ways to incorporate such concerns into instructional programs.

Companion to the Mind This link opens in a new window An indispensable guide to the mysteries of the human mind, including concepts such as language, memory, and intelligence, with new entries on attachment theory, caffeine, extra-terrestrial intelligence, and imagination, among many others.

Alexander Street Counseling & Therapy Videos This link opens in a new window Alexander Street's Counseling and Therapy Channel provides a rich collection of video and text for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Students can study, observe, and experience a wide variety of different therapy and counseling methods as practiced by experts in their fields.

Early Childhood Research Quarterly This link opens in a new window
ECRQ publishes predominantly empirical research (quantitative or qualitative methods) on issues of interest to early childhood development, theory, and educational practice. Topics of interest include children's social, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, language, and motor development; the efficacy of early intervention and prevention programs; best classroom practices and effective early childhood curricula; and professional development and training for early childhood practitioners.

Educational Administration Abstracts This link opens in a new window This source is a clearinghouse for citations and abstracts covering educational administration, leadership, management, research, and other key areas in the field of education.

ERIC (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than a million records and links to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents from ERIC back to 1966, now available in Ebsco's user-friendly interface.

ERIC Online (ERIC) This link opens in a new window Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC's new website includes resources such as teaching guides, research reports, bibliographies, issue papers, instructional materials, and evaluation instruments. The new site allows easier access to full-text articles.

Middle Search Plus This link opens in a new window Provides full text for over 140 popular, middle school magazines. The collection also includes thousands of biographies, historical essays, primary source documents, and an Image Collection of maps, flags, and photos. Articles are assigned a Lexile reading level indicator.

Primary Search This link opens in a new window Provides full text for more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a Lexile reading level indicator.

Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window Designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high-quality, full-text education journals and more than 200 educational reports.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses This link opens in a new window
Offers citations for over 2.2 million theses and dissertations in every academic field. In addition, over 750,000 items are available as full-text PDF files.
For more info: http://proquest.libguides.com/pqdt

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window Offers 575 full-text publications covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, and observational and experimental methods.

SAGE This link opens in a new window The world's 5th largest journals publisher, with more than 645 journals spanning the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine.
NOTE: DBU's subscription includes all SAGE journal articles published from 1999 to the present.

Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new window Provides indexing & abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines for professional educators. Topics include assessment, best practices, current research, curriculum development, literacy standards, school administration, and more.

Teaching Books This link opens in a new window
TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. It includes thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.

Career Accelerator / Test Prep This link opens in a new window Tools for successful job searching, including writing résumés and cover letters, navigating the interview experience, and finding the type of career that's just right for you.